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People always claim Bing has bad results, but I honestly don't think Google's are any better. Their extra metadata is regularly incorrect and their actual resul

People always claim Bing has bad results, but I honestly don't think Google's are any better. Their extra metadata is regularly incorrect and their actual results have been polluted with SEO bullshit and ads for over a decade now. We simply lack any decent search engine and have for a long time.

mrweasel 3y ago
Maybe the complaint was against the UI of Bing, which isn't great, it's very busy and cluttered. The results are as good or better than Google at this point. It might vary depending on use cases and how proficient you are at using either search engine, but in general Bing is a very strong competitor to Google. As for the UI, Microsoft seems to have given up an any type of UI research after the Office ribbon interface lift. I don't know how you'd improve the UI of a search engine, but Bing could stand a bit of improvement, and so could Google.
notahacker 3y ago
Both are polluted with rubbish, but Bing's inability to find it's own features is a bit special (For example if you search "houses for sale near $placename" it surfaces a property search UX which is actually quite neat. If you type "houses for sale in $placename" which is not exactly an obscure variant query, the same feature is completely hidden (although there is a big button saying "houses for sale" that will reorder your search results without surfacing the house search ui). Battling spam is an ongoing battle, the "best" results are subjective, but not being able to find its own features feels like half-arsed implementation.)
- DinaCoder99 3y ago
  Maybe i'm nuts but I think attempts to be senantically cute with queries almost always backfires. I'd much rather treat it like a full text search.
  - notahacker 3y ago
    Generally I do full text search if I want to find words and phrases in text and natural language queries if I want cute widgets to solve natural language questions. But "house sale $placename" works fwiw!

mrweasel 3y ago

Maybe the complaint was against the UI of Bing, which isn't great, it's very busy and cluttered. The results are as good or better than Google at this point. It might vary depending on use cases and how proficient you are at using either search engine, but in general Bing is a very strong competitor to Google. As for the UI, Microsoft seems to have given up an any type of UI research after the Office ribbon interface lift. I don't know how you'd improve the UI of a search engine, but Bing could stand a bit of improvement, and so could Google.

notahacker 3y ago

Both are polluted with rubbish, but Bing's inability to find it's own features is a bit special (For example if you search "houses for sale near $placename" it surfaces a property search UX which is actually quite neat. If you type "houses for sale in $placename" which is not exactly an obscure variant query, the same feature is completely hidden (although there is a big button saying "houses for sale" that will reorder your search results without surfacing the house search ui). Battling spam is an ongoing battle, the "best" results are subjective, but not being able to find its own features feels like half-arsed implementation.)

DinaCoder99 3y ago
Maybe i'm nuts but I think attempts to be senantically cute with queries almost always backfires. I'd much rather treat it like a full text search.
- notahacker 3y ago
  Generally I do full text search if I want to find words and phrases in text and natural language queries if I want cute widgets to solve natural language questions. But "house sale $placename" works fwiw!